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What is the best door material?

When it comes to choosing the right door material, homeowners and builders face numerous options, each with its own set of benefits and drawbacks. In this article, we will explore the unique features and advantages of Sing Core doors, comparing them to three other popular types of door materials: solid wood, fiberglass, and steel. By understanding the characteristics of each material, you can make an informed decision that aligns with your specific needs and preferences.

Sing Core Doors

Sing Core doors are a revolutionary choice that combines the best features of other door materials. They are constructed using a patented technology that involves a honeycomb core between layers of quality hardwood. Sing Core doors are known for their exceptional strength, lightweight nature, and resistance to warping, bending, and twisting. Additionally, they offer excellent soundproofing qualities and can be customized to fit any size or style requirement. Whether you’re seeking a residential or commercial door solution, Sing Core doors provide durability, energy efficiency, and aesthetic appeal.

Solid Wood Doors

Solid wood doors have long been a popular choice due to their timeless beauty and natural warmth. Crafted from a variety of hardwoods, they offer a sense of luxury and elegance to any space. Solid wood doors are durable, can be refinished easily, and have a decent lifespan. However, they tend to be heavier than other materials, making installation and movement more challenging. Additionally, solid wood doors are susceptible to warping or expanding in high-humidity environments. Regular maintenance, including sealing and painting, is necessary to preserve their appearance and longevity.

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Fiberglass Doors

Fiberglass doors have gained popularity for their durability and low maintenance requirements. They are resistant to rot, cracking, and warping, making them an excellent choice for areas with extreme weather conditions. Fiberglass doors can be designed to mimic the look of wood, offering a more affordable alternative without compromising on aesthetics. However, compared to Sing Core doors, fiberglass lacks the same level of strength and stability. They may be prone to dents or dings, and their insulating properties are typically lower than those of Sing Core doors.

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Steel Doors

Steel doors are renowned for their strength, security, and durability. They provide excellent protection against forced entry and are often used in commercial and high-security settings. Steel doors are resistant to fire, extreme weather, and pests. However, they can be susceptible to dents and scratches, which may require touch-ups or repainting. Steel doors also conduct heat and cold more readily than Sing Core doors, greatly impacting energy efficiency. Moreover, the industrial appearance of steel doors may not be suitable for all architectural styles.

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Conclusion

Selecting the right door material involves careful consideration of various factors such as strength, durability, insulation, aesthetics, and maintenance requirements. Sing Core doors offer a unique combination of strength, lightweight construction, and resistance to warping or twisting, as well as boasting numerous optional features such as security, sound proofing, and more. They outshine solid wood doors, fiberglass doors, and steel doors in terms of their overall performance, making them an excellent choice for both residential and commercial applications. However, personal preferences and specific project requirements should always guide the ultimate decision. By weighing the pros and cons of each material, you can confidently choose the ideal door type that meets your needs while enhancing the beauty and functionality of your space.

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Sing Core Security Door

Sing Core Security Doors

Your front door is the gateway between your home, family, and belongings, and the outside world. Nowadays, it’s not enough to just protect your home from the elements, your door needs to provide safety and security for you as well. Sing Core’s new Security Door provides the same durable and high quality comforts you’re already familiar with, with added protection against intrusion.

What is a Security Door?

A Security Door is used to provide additional protection and peace of mind over what a standard door can do. Whether used as an exterior door, an interior door, or even a garage door, our Security Door can bring this added safety to your home or business.

Sing Core door panels are already incredibly strong, resilient, and guaranteed to last, and we stand by those qualities. However, intruders are constantly looking for ways to bypass the protection provided by traditional doors. These methods can include using anything from a chainsaw, to a circular saw, to an axe. While we trust in the strength of our standard core, with enough time and strong enough tools, even they can be cut through. With our new Security Door, that changes.

Why Choose a Sing Core Security Door?

Sing Core Security Door Panels come with our patented high-quality honeycomb core and rigid steel reinforcements. The honeycomb core provides insulation, strength, and sound-deadening features, while also remaining incredibly lightweight. By adding the steel reinforcements, we double down on the strength and durability of the panel, making it incredibly difficult to cut or break through. Plus, the door remains impressively light for the quality it provides.

A traditional door can be cut through in less than a minute, and while it would often make a lot of noise, these break-ins are often done when no one is home, meaning you won’t be there to catch them in the act. Cutting through a Sing Core Security Door with the same tools would take substantially longer, and brings other challenges to the intruder, such being much louder, the likelihood of breaking a tool on the unexpected metal reinforcement, and a significantly higher chance of being caught.

In addition, these doors can be used in many cases aside from the standard front door scenario. Businesses with expensive equipment or sensitive documents may want to secure them in a more effective way, and luxury car owners may want a garage door that can’t simply be kicked in or cut through. You could even use Sing Core Security Panels to build a mobile and lightweight cabinet for on-the-go secure storage.

 

When it comes to your home, security is not an area where “good enough” is all you need. There are many ways you can improve the safety and security of your home, and installing a Sing Core Security Door is one of the most effective options. A break-in happens every 26 seconds in the United States, reaching 2.5 million break-ins every year, with over half being home burglaries. Let’s keep your homes and businesses off of that list.

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Metal Doors

When it comes to metal doors, Sing Core is one supportive resource behind the scenes that you may not be aware of, and is the proud creator of some of the best metal doors in the industry.


Although metal doors are traditionally incredibly heavy, Sing Core technology gives architects and door manufacturers the ability to create lightweight doors without compromising strength. This is especially true if you are looking for security doors. Additionally, our doors also have the added benefit of being eco-friendly, made in the USA, insulated, and sound-deadening.

It’s very important that doors be operable, especially pocket doors, bypass sliding doors or double sliding doors. If your metal doors are large in size, or in use as steel security doors, then other challenges must be taken into consideration in the architectural design and specification of your metal doors.

Metal Automatic Sliding Door

When looking for the best metal automatic sliding doors, you want hassle-free installation, low maintenance, and high-quality doors. If your sliding door is missing any of these components, it causes undue stress on the automatic sliding door hardware and the structure that houses the hardware. This can lead to more expensive maintenance issues over time. However, Sing Core doors can avoid these issues by providing lightweight, high-strength, and warp-free door cores that are guaranteed to last for up to 50 years.

Large metal automatic sliding doors with Sing Core inside

Warp-free Metal Doors

Only metal doors with Sing Core inside can be guaranteed to remain warp-free for 50 years. This means your metal doors can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years, including the full structure warranty of the door. Plus, the lightweight and high strength characteristics of the door, means less maintenance necessary over time, truly a breakthrough in architectural metal door design specs.

Hot Rolled Steel Sliding Doors

These Hot Rolled steel doors are among the lightest weight hot rolled steel doors for the ultimate architectural panel.

Any Type of Metal Doors

At Sing Core we specialize in creating metal doors that weigh a fraction of other metal doors while providing all the added benefits of having Sing Core inside. We can create custom metal doors in a variety of door skins. These could include beautiful materials like brass, bronzecopper, and traditional materials like steel and aluminum. Our two most popular types of metal doors are aluminum sliding doors and steel sliding doors.

Aluminum Doors

Sing aluminum doors are made to the highest degree of accuracy and precision by supporting the best architects, custom metal door artisans, door manufacturers, millworks, and metal work companies. Many types, styles, and weights of aluminum are availability. One favorite material of Sing Core is anodized aluminum. As seen in the image below, the anodized aluminum creates a beautiful work of art that is both functional and unique.  Anodized aluminum can be created in a variety of colors like gold, red, blue, silver, green, or black to create a door that is high strength, lightweight, and visually gorgeous

 

Metal doors large hot rolled steel sliding door being finished

Large hot rolled steel sliding door being finished

Steel Doors

Our most popular metal doors are created using a variety of different steels. All of our processes create high-tech, ultra-exclusive, and beautiful metal doors. See examples of our cold rolled steel doors, diamond plate steel doors, galvanized steel doors, hot rolled steel doors, or stainless-steel doors in our galleries below. These doors can be custom manufactured to your architectural specifications with Sing Core inside.

 

An architect demonstrating the ease of closing a Sing Core steel door.
Sing Core steel door recently installed at Nike headquarters.
Unfinished Sing Core steel sliding door. Check below to see it finished.

Cold Rolled Steel Doors

Metal doors cold rolled steel sliding doors

Cold rolled steel sliding doors

Hot Rolled Steel Doors

Metal doors large hot rolled steel sliding door

Large hot rolled steel sliding door

Galvanized Steel Doors

Lightweight one-inch galvanized steel door panel strength demonstration

Lightweight one-inch galvanized steel door panel strength demonstration

Diamond Plate Steel Doors

Metal doors modern diamond plate steel door lightweight stronger than steel

Modern diamond plate steel door lightweight stronger than steel

Stainless Steel Doors

Multiple steel panels can be joined on site to create large stainless steel doors

Multiple steel panels can be joined on site to create large stainless steel doors

Metal Exterior Doors

Metal exterior doors can pose additional challenges, especially if one side of the door is 100% exposed to the elements. Without Sing Core door cores, doors are prone to warping because of the changes of environment. However, by using Sing Core you avoid the issue of warping. The patented Sing Core design can guarantee your door’s structural integrity for up to 50 years

Metal doors with closed edges

Metal doors with closed edges

Metal Kitchen Door

metal doors insulated for cold storage

Insulated cold storage

Whether your application is interior or exterior, Sing Core can help your favorite metal door company to build the best metal doors to your specifications and expectations. We can create metal kitchen doors, cold storage metal doors, or insulated metal doors.

Serving the Top Metal Door Manufacturers in the World

Sing Core provides professional Sing Core metal door core to the top four metal door manufacturers in the world enabling them to create a high precision, high performance custom metal doors. All our products are Eco-friendly, made in the USA, lightweight, and high strength. Our  metal doors are guaranteed not to fail for 50 years. You get the ultimate door and core that the planet has to offer.

See also: Metal Sliding Door Gallery

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Steel Doors

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Core Value of Steel Doors
It is how steel door shapes the future by invention of Sing Core.

See: Steel Door Gallery

Steel door technology has not made any major improvements since the development of EPS core which has higher insulation for replacing the paper core and wood based core used previously. Sing Core uses reinforced EPS or urethane foam to fill the voids of the structural torsion-box-like vertical veneer in those highly insulated Sing products, and… Viola! You have the strength which is approximately 30 times stronger than any other regular door made of foam. Steel doors made of patented Sing Core is the leading edge door technology that provides more insulation, strength and extremely lightweight. The end result is more Eco-friendly door; stronger and lighter weight without using heavy gauge steel but creating an even stronger steel door. Click here to see the steel panel regular foam vs. Sing core

Achieve the security, safety and elegance of the most economical, advanced steel door technology to your entryway with Sing Metal Doors made in your choice of high quality stainless steel, galvanized steel or cold rolled steel.

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This photo features a fully insulated 13 ft. x 3 ft. x 1 inch steel door with 20 gauge metal under 160 lbs. of load with hardly any deflection. No steel studs, no welding. See pix of steel panels ready for door applications.

Sing Steel Doors are the only insulated Eco-friendly steel doors that can be guaranteed true flat thanks to patented Sing Core’s torsion box/foam composite base material that not only ensures flatness at the time of manufacture but stays flat for centuries.

Lightweight

Honeycomb-Skin-Material-Options-Metal-AluminumYou get it all; Huge savings in heavy weight when compared to solid steel while exceeding standards of high-strength and built-in insulation backed by our limited lifetime guarantee at a fraction of the cost. It’s why we say, “Heavy does not mean strong – and light does not mean weak.” Sing Steel Doors weigh much less than other steel doors and do not require heavy steel reinforcement studs to achieve the high strength. Steel doors made Sing Core do not need expensive, heavy duty hardware required by regular heavy steel doors.

High Strength

Compared to solid steel doors, Sing Core is stronger than steel pound for pound. Patented Sing core could reach 1000 PSI strength vs. paper honeycomb core traditionally used in the steel industry and is changing how steel doors are made. Sing steel doors will not dent or kink like regular hollow core, paper core or foam core steel doors.

Economical

Patented Sing Core costs a fraction of high-end honeycomb substrates, like those used in traditional aerospace applications, and still outperforms any of them in lightweight, high-strength, eco-friendly economical solutions bar-none. And that does not even take into consideration the reduction in transportation/installation costs and reduction in maintenance and repair costs over time.

No Welding

no-welding-free-metal-fabrication-lightweight-eco-friendly-stronger-than-steelSing Steel Doors are manufactured without welding which reduces labor costs, environmental and health hazards and our patented method will not compromise the integrity of the steel surface of the steel door, like welding does. No need to compromise the integrity of your steel doors by incorporating the most high precision Sing Core (+/- .006 inch) material and our patented metal fabrication process.

Custom Lite Openings

Sing Steel Doors can come complete with custom lite opening cutouts for adding glass to your door. You are not limited to the type, shape or style of cutout for your glass opening. Other steel door companies offer a variety of window openings to select from. Sing Steel Doors allow you to create any glass enhancement that you can imagine.

Steel Door Replacements

Metal-doorSing Steel Doors are the number one replacement steel doors specified by architects and designers who demand high-quality and longevity backed by our rock-solid limited lifetime warranty. See our Clients List.

Steel Door Hardware

When it is of primary importance to achieve high-end security and stability of a steel door, one invariably runs into the issue of heavy steel doors causing additional strain on the structure and hardware. Patented Sing Core eliminates the heavy weight of solid steel while out-performing solid steel.

Service Industries

Sing Steel Doors are replacing other steel doors used in commercial, healthcare, educational industries as they are being retrofitted in schools, hotels, storm shelters and retail installations.

More Options to Meet Your Specifications

Sing Steel Doors are completely customizable to your specifications. For years the design teams have been working with architects, designers and contractors to solve the problems associated with pre-existing steel door technologies. There is nearly no limit to composite options that can be adapted to the sing Steel Door that will satisfy your requirements.

Variety of Applications

The versatility and customizable attributes of Sing Steel Doors offers almost unlimited applications including (but not limited to) bullet proof, lead lined, extreme weather, tornado, hurricane**, fire door, STC rated* and acoustical applications.

Available in Any Size or Configuration

Sing Steel Doors are available to meet your specifications and are not limited to a catalog of available items. Commercial steel doors are the best steel entry doors that are available in any configuration including steel double doors and commercial exterior steel doors.

Fast Turnaround Time

Special rush orders for custom size doors can takes less than one day if we have the materials required in stock.

Eco-friendly Sing Steel

Only Sing Steel Doors are a composite of patented Sing Core embracing our true green technology for a better world and steel which is one of the most recycled materials on our green earth.

Added Security and Benefits

Sing Steel Doors have the added benefits of increased security for vandalism-proofing, protection against windstorm or other acts of god, water proofing, increased fire protection and sanitation.

Substitute Architectural Spec # 08 13 19 Stainless-Steel Doors

Hot Rolled Steel Large Sliding Doors

 

* Note: STC rating varies according to size, thickness, skin, and other factors. Sing Core does not rate doors, although we are fortunate enough to have one of the best sound testing labs in the world, here in the Pacific Northwest. If you require a specific STC rating, Sing Core can build a door to your architectural specifications and have the resulting door tested at our rating facility for an official rating.

**Customer will need to perform lab tests to certify hurricane rating for local code compliance.